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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

  • 9th December 2025
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Chemistry, Invention, Lead, Oil, Poison, Science, Technology, United States, USA

Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.

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